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Ki On Twog Ky (also known as Cornplanter ) (1732/40-1836)

Date:

1796

Object Number:

1867.314

Medium:

Oil on canvas

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Advertising box

A wood box with a dark blue paper label on the side printed with a image of a building and in red and white "Bixby's Best Shoe Blacking/ S.M. Bixby & Co./ 194 & 195 Hester St./ New York/ 3 Doz. Bixby's 'Best' ". Inside the lid is a paper label with a color street scene with a well dressed man standing in front of a building marked "Bixby's/ Steam Blacking Manufactory" having his shoes shined by a kneeling boy surrounded by a group of shoeshine boys fighting, smoking and carrying boxes of Bixby Blacking with the caption "New York Boot Black Brigade". It reads in black and red "Bixby's 'Best' Blacking/ New York City.

Credit Line:

Gift of Bella C. Landauer

Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.